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Best Space Sim Games on Steam

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Astrox Imperium Astrox Imperium is a relaxing space game where you fly around a generated universe. Mining, Fighting, Building, Exploring, and Surviving. What makes this game unique? You have complete control of how it plays. A robust sandbox and lots of MOD tools. Make it your game, and play it your own way.
Price 12.49€
Rating 8.2
Release 22 Mar 2019
X4: Foundations Your journey to building a vast space empire begins behind the controls of a single ship. Explore, trade, fight, and build as you rise to command fleets, stations, and entire economies in a living, fully simulated universe that reacts to every decision.
Price -91% 4.63€
Rating 7.8
Release 30 Nov 2018
Star Shelter Star shelter is a space survival game built from the ground up for VR. You are stranded in space, you must climb around in Zero-G, explore, scavenge, craft, hack and fight to survive. You have to build, arm and upgrade your own space station in order to escape the cosmic graveyard.
Price -78% 3.76€
Rating 7.3
Release 23 Oct 2018
Helium Rain Trade your wares and eliminate the competition in a cutthroat world. Buy new ships and stations to mine and haul resources. Explore the vast emptiness of space.
Price Free to play
Rating 7.4
Release 11 Oct 2018
60 Parsecs! 60 Parsecs! is an Atomic Space Age adventure of scavenge and survival. Keep your crew alive and ready for action. Make difficult choices, face soup shortages and other horrors of outer space. And maybe reach your destination. Or not.
Price -66% 3.42€
Rating 8.7
Release 18 Sep 2018
Star Traders: Frontiers You are the captain of a starship venturing through a massive open universe. Customize your crew and take command at the helm of your very own ship as you explore a galaxy torn apart by internal strife, alien threats, and political intrigue.
Price 14.79€
Rating 8.1
Release 31 Jul 2018
Space Pirates And Zombies 2 Design and then improve the ultimate mothership. Explore a persistent living galaxy populated by 200 unique captains that can do everything you can do. Survive the zombie infection and then fight them back. Make allies and start your own faction. Build your empire. Also includes Sandbox Mode.
Price 19.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 07 Nov 2017
3030 Deathwar Redux - A Space Odyssey 3030 Deathwar is a unique mix of Adventure and Space Sim. Explore star systems, mine and hunt pirates in top-down mode. Leave your ship and switch into classic Adventuring mode, where you explore derelicts, talk to shady characters or head over to the space bar for a drink.
Price 14.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 13 Sep 2017
EVERSPACE EVERSPACE™ combines fast-paced combat with roguelike elements, great visuals and a captivating story. It takes you on a challenging journey through an ever-changing, beautifully crafted universe full of surprises. Shoot, craft and loot your way to victory while the odds are stacked against you.
Price -95% 1.18€
Rating 7.5
Release 25 May 2017
Starpoint Gemini Warlords Strategy from the front lines! Starpoint Gemini Warlords combines 3rd person capital spaceship combat with 4X strategy and RPG gameplay elements. Build mighty war fleets and send them into battle or lead them into combat yourself. Become the Warlord and conquer the Gemini system!
Price -96% 1.47€
Rating 7.0
Release 23 May 2017
House of the Dying Sun House of the Dying Sun is a tactical space shooter that puts you in the cockpit of the universe's most terrifying starfighter. Hunt the enemies of the Empire and bring ruin to their people.
Price 19.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 01 Nov 2016
Children of a Dead Earth The most scientifically accurate space warfare simulator ever made. Now with Steam Workshop!
Price 19.50€
Rating 8.4
Release 23 Sep 2016
No Man's Sky No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Price -78% 13.51€
Rating 8.3
Release 12 Aug 2016
Polandball: Can into Space! Crazy fun rocket simulator game with countryballs theme. Can Polandball into Space? Try to find out!
Price 2.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 15 Jun 2016
Wayward Terran Frontier: Zero Falls 2d space combat like no other. From the perspective of a single crew member, explore the fully destructible interior of any ship in a massive living world. Engage in space combat with no hitpoints where you know your enemy is dead when you see them fall out of their ship into the cold dark of space.
Price 27.99€
Rating 6.3
Release 11 Feb 2016
Evochron Legacy SE Advanced Space Flight, Combat, Trading, and Exploration Simulation. Set in a vast explorable universe, Evochron Legacy offers freeform gameplay with many diverse objectives and paths to choose from.
Price 24.50€
Rating 7.7
Release 18 Jan 2016
Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation Exiled to a deep space mining sector, you are left with a crappy ship, a laser, and a small mining beam. It is up to you to survive by working your way through the galaxy. Mine asteroids, refine and trade the ore, buy upgrades for your ship, hunt pirates... you get it.
Price 8.19€
Rating 7.9
Release 30 Nov 2015
Endless Sky Endless Sky is a 2D space trading and combat game inspired by the classic Escape Velocity series. Work your way up from a relatively wimpy shuttle, cargo ship, or fighter, to a highly upgraded and customized flagship or to a massive fleet of warships or freighters.
Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 30 Oct 2015
Rebel Galaxy Rebel Galaxy is a swashbuckling space adventure, with action-packed combat, exploration, discovery, trade, and “negotiation” with the outlandish denizens at the edge of the known universe.
Price -95% 1.09€
Rating 8.3
Release 20 Oct 2015
Planetbase Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
Price -51% 7.38€
Rating 7.7
Release 15 Oct 2015
Universe Sandbox Create & destroy on an unimaginable scale with a realistic physics-based space simulator. Explore the beauty of our universe and the fragility of our planet. Use science to bend the laws of gravity, collide planets, boil away oceans, fire epic space lasers, and customize your universe.
Masterpiece
Price -54% 14.05€
Rating 9.4
Release 24 Aug 2015
Space Colony: Steam Edition Space Colony: Steam Edition is a remaster of the real-time base builder and strategy game from Firefly Studios, creators of the Stronghold series. In Space Colony you colonize to survive, designing intergalactic bases that keep your crew productive, happy and defended against hostile alien threats.
Price -75% 3.77€
Rating 7.4
Release 30 Apr 2015
STAR WARS - X-Wing Alliance A neutral family fights for its business - and its survival - and is swept up in the struggle against the encroaching Empire. You must defy the strong-arm tactics of a rival family who will stop at nothing to destroy your trading company.
Price 9.75€
Rating 7.8
Release 28 Apr 2015
STAR WARS : TIE Fighter Special Edition The Imperial Navy is called upon to eradicate the last of the rebellion and restore law and order. As an Imperial navy starfighter pilot, you will safeguard imperiled lives thoughout the galaxy. Join the Emperor's cause in eliminating the Rebel uprising as the Empire strikes back!
Price 9.75€
Rating 7.7
Release 28 Apr 2015
STAR WARS - X-Wing Special Edition Against the overwhelming might of the Empire stands a small but growing Rebel Alliance. Scattered resistance groups are uniting and what is needed most now are Starfighter pilots. Will you join their struggle to end this tyranny and become a hero of the Rebellion?
Price 9.75€
Rating 7.4
Release 28 Apr 2015
Kerbal Space Program In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
Masterpiece
Price -83% 6.36€
Rating 9.4
Release 27 Apr 2015
Elite Dangerous Take control of your own starship and blaze your trail in an ever-changing galaxy. Master the arts of combat, mining and trade or venture out into the unknown across a 1:1 scale universe.
Price 19.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 02 Apr 2015
The Spatials It's the year 5781 -- and you have been chosen to build and lead a space station in a wild corner of the galaxy! Attract visitors and explore hundreds of planets to fund your station.
Price -85% 1.55€
Rating 6.6
Release 30 Mar 2015
StarMade The ultimate space sandbox. Participate in epic fleet battles, form alliances, strive to dominate entire galaxies and harness the universe’s resources for your industrious empire or the destruction of others. Customise your experience, the universe is yours!
Price -31% 10.36€
Rating 6.4
Release 04 Dec 2014
Starpoint Gemini 2 Captain your own space ship and roam the galaxy in 3D in this tactical space simulator with tons of RPG depth ! Space has never looked so inviting - but images can betray...It has been two years since the end of the second Gemini war, the situation in the wartorn system is further from resolution than ever.
Price -94% 2.23€
Rating 6.8
Release 26 Sep 2014
Rodina A single-developer passion project. A seamless full scale solar system. Thrilling action. Be part of an incredible journey as a Universe is built from the ground up!
Price 14.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 28 Jul 2014
Freespace 2 FreeSpace 2, the follow up to the classic Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War is ready to engage you in the second round. Follow the Grand Terran Vasudan Alliance further into the mysteries of the Shivans. Get your flight stick and hit the flight deck. The last time was just a warm up.
Price 24.50€
Rating 7.4
Release 06 Jun 2014
Parkan 2 Parkan II is an original concept game that will allow you to feel as a pilot of a spacecraft lost somewhere in the universe. Become a pirate or mercenary, get money to buy the most powerful cruiser and show them all who is to be the new master of the galaxy. Unforgettable adventures in the Parkan II universe await you!
Price -84% 0.65€
Rating 7.1
Release 16 Apr 2014
Strike Suit Zero: Director's Cut The Director's Cut of Strike Suit Zero delivers the ultimate version with a graphical overhaul, restructured campaign and all its DLC. Pilot the mecha Strike Suit across massive fleet battles where your dogfighting skills will decide Earth's fate.
Price 9.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 08 Apr 2014
Strike Suit Infinity Strike Suit Infinity is a frantic high score chaser set in the Strike Suit Zero universe. Your skill is the only thing that matters and whatever combat experience you've had so far is irrelevant. There is no end to the enemies you'll face. There is no winning. There is only the fight for survival.
Price 3.15€
Rating 7.7
Release 30 Apr 2013
Star Conflict Star Conflict is a thrilling space action game that lets you take the helm of a combat starship and take part in large-scale battles. Build your own fleet and set out to explore the galaxy!
Price Free to play
Rating 7.2
Release 27 Feb 2013

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